Kirk's Cabin Complex

Built in 1889. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“The Kirk's Cabin Complex was built by homesteader Rensselaer Lee Kirk around 1890 in what later became Canyonlands National Park in Utah. Kirk was a small rancher who built a log cabin and two corrals at the location, but was unable to make a living there and abandoned the ranch after a few years.”
Wikipedia article Kirk's Cabin Complex, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 23 National Register listings published here for San Juan County · listed in 1988 · category: District · built in 1889.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

Address. Upper Salt Walsh, Moab, 84532
When was it listed? October 1988
Category. district
Also known as. Canyonlands National Park MRA
Census division. Blanding
When was it built? 1889
National Register reference number. 88001252 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

13 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Kirk's Cabin Complex between 1996 and 2020, burning about 152 acres in total. 12 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Natural	12
Recreation and ceremony	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
18 August 1996	Natural	under an acre	Moab Field Office	SHELLNUT
14 August 2000	Natural	133 acres	Canyonlands National Park	BIRTHDAY
8 July 2000	Natural	under an acre	Manti-Lasal National Forest	SALT CREEK #2
7 July 2010	Natural	under an acre	Moab Field Office	BRIDGER JACK
4 July 2015	Natural	under an acre	Moab Field Office	CATHEDRAL
26 July 2004	Natural	under an acre	Manti-Lasal National Forest	BOUNDRY
2 July 2000	Natural	4.0 acres	Moab Field Office	SALT CREEK
19 July 2003	Natural	under an acre	Moab Field Office	BEEF SIDE

Every fire recorded in San Juan County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Kirk's Cabin Complex: 3 unknowns, 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Unknown	Uranium	Occurrence	Underground
Unknown	Uranium	Past Producer
Unknown	Uranium	Unknown	Underground
Unknown	Uranium	Unknown
Unknown	Uranium	Unknown

Every working recorded in San Juan County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88001252 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
San Juan County	All 23 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.